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Decipherment — De*ci pher*ment, n. The act of deciphering. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
decipherment — index definition, solution (answer) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Decipherment — Decipher redirects here. For other uses, see Decipher (disambiguation). Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost. It is closely related to… … Wikipedia
decipherment — decipher ► VERB 1) convert from code into normal language. 2) succeed in understanding (something hard to interpret). DERIVATIVES decipherable adjective decipherment noun … English terms dictionary
Decipherment of rongorongo — Tablet B Aruku kurenga, verso. One of four texts which provided the Jaussen list, the first attempt at decipherment. Made of Pacific rosewood, mid nineteenth century, Easter Island. (Collection of the SS.CC., Rome) There have been numerous… … Wikipedia
Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs — Demotic script on a replica of the Rosetta Stone … Wikipedia
Decipherment of hieroglyphic writing — Until recently, the decipherment of hieroglyphs was hampered because those attempting to decipher the hieroglyphs assigned emotional meanings to the actual symbols used. For example, some people believed that the hieroglyph for son , a goose, was … Wikipedia
decipherment — noun see decipher … New Collegiate Dictionary
decipherment — noun The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost … Wiktionary
decipherment — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Something that serves to explain or clarify: clarification, construction, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposition, illumination, illustration, interpretation. Archaic: enucleation. See EXPLAIN … English dictionary for students
